A man has been charged after another man received a puncture wound during an alleged assault outside a licensed premises in Gladstone this morning.
Around 2.15am an 18-year-old man was standing in Yarroon Street when the other man approached him and stabbed him with a knife once to lower abdomen.
The armed man was restrained by security staff from a nearby hotel until police arrived.
The victim was transported to Gladstone Hospital for treatment to a non-life threatening injury.
Investigations indicate the two men were not known to each other.
An 18-year-old Kin Kora man has been charged with one count of unlawful wounding.
He is expected to appear in the Gladstone Magistrates Court on Monday, October 8.
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